Service offer

Protection of buildings and infrastructures against explosives

• Consulting on the hazard potentials of explosives
• Use of the in-house Terror Event Database (TED)
• Identification of explosion damages through laboratory and free-field experiments as well as simulations
• Calculation and damage assessment of building components and buildings against explosion loads (ExBends software)
• Development of security concepts and protective measures
• Cost-benefit analysis of building elements for explosion protection 

 

Risk analyses of extraordinary loadings

• Damage analyses for buildings and infrastructures regarding loadings such as hail or storms
• Design of security concepts against such loadings
• Modeling of cascade effects in infrastructural networks
• Hazard, damage and risk analyses for detonation events

 

Risk management for urban security

• Risk and vulnerability analyses for buildings and traffic routes (VITRUV)
• Efficiency analyses for security measures
• Support for risk management (e.g., major events)
• Evaluation of safety distance during the disposal of explosives

 

Sensor technologies for safety and security applications

• Energy-efficient sensors for safety and security applications for critical infrastructure
• Energy harvesting for the supply of wireless sensor networks
• Safe and reliable data transmission in ultra-low-power wireless sensor networks through robust and resilient network architectures and protocols
• Detonation, smoke and water sensors; extensometers (strain gauges/optical sensors) for large infrastructures
• Ground sensors with wireless interface for energy-self-sufficient monitoring

 

Safety, efficiency and resilience analyses for technical systems

• Simulation and evaluation of the behavior of safety-critical systems
• Auditing within the whole process of system and product development
• Methods such as: hazard analysis, FTA, FMEA (qualitatively and quantitatively)
• Simulations and visualizations to evaluate security points (checkpoints)
• Numerical efficiency analyses for boreholes (wells)
• Academic training in the field of risk analyses and technical safety

 

Testing and certification

• Explosion resistance of security glazing, windows, doors and locks according to DIN EN 13123-1/13124-1, DIN EN 13541, ISO 16933 
• Classification of resistance against manual attack for security glazing according to EN 356
• Software-based risk management analyses in conformity with ISO 31000:2009 
• Dynamic material characterization of building materials and geological materials